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GIB raises to game with a singleton


wbartley

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Just play bridge robot. Human South.

 

[hv=pc=n&s=sak5hkj5432da4c42&w=sj8743ht6d2cat973&n=st6h9dkjt9753cqj8&e=sq92haq87dq86ck65&d=n&v=0&b=1&a=3dp3hp4hppp]399|300[/hv]

 

The 3 bid was a bit speculative, I know, but I had tolerance for diamonds and figured we'd be okay in 4 if GIB didn't like hearts. Unfortunately for me, a singleton was all it needed to decide it liked them.

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Just play bridge robot. Human South.

 

[hv=pc=n&s=sak5hkj5432da4c42&w=sj8743ht6d2cat973&n=st6h9dkjt9753cqj8&e=sq92haq87dq86ck65&d=n&v=0&b=1&a=3dp3hp4hppp]399|300[/hv]

 

The 3 bid was a bit speculative, I know, but I had tolerance for diamonds and figured we'd be okay in 4 if GIB didn't like hearts. Unfortunately for me, a singleton was all it needed to decide it liked them.

Anything speculative with GIBBO is recipe for disaster. I had similarly 2d-2S and GIBBO raised to 4S with stiff spade. "Twice rebiddable" might have something to do with it.

 

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It's not speculative according to GIB (it bids the same way). If you're going to play at the 4 level regardless, 4 surely can't be the worst bid in the world though.

 

I don't think one should have to have a suit that plays well in game opposite a singleton in order to be able to bid 3. What's the point of bidding 3 at all if that's the case? I could just bid 4 since the chances GIB has a void in hearts are rather small.

 

In fact, North holds 1.6 hearts on average and a void only about 14% of the time. If 3 isn't asking if North has more hearts than average then I don't know what it means.

 

Give South AJxxxx of hearts and everything else the same and 5 has play while 4 is completely hopeless.

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